Human civilization has developed rapidly and especially recently, and the result of this development has been the spread of many pollutants that have affected the environment and human health, as well as the spread of many erratic food habits and fast food and harmful to human health, which led to the spread Many diseases and health problems, such as cancers, heart disease, stress and diabetes.
And one of the most common diseases among people nowadays is diabetes, what is diabetes
Diabetes is linked to the accumulation of sugars in the blood and the inability of the body to digest and benefit from them, as well as increase the proportion of fat taken by the body of meat and fish and converted into sugars and not to benefit from and thus accumulate in the blood dramatically, and over time lead Diabetes can damage some organs of the body such as the eyes, kidneys and nerves, and most affects the diabetes on the pancreas to work to destroy it and stopped the secretion of the hormone insulin, which works to destroy sugars to benefit the body.
What are the symptoms of diabetes
People with diabetes have the following symptoms:
- Diabetic patients drink plenty of water.
- Note that diabetic patients eat more.
- The diabetic complains of headaches very much.
- Sometimes the patient complains of losing weight.
- frequent urination
Diabetes
Clinical diabetes has been divided into two parts:
- The section comes at an early age, and characterized by this section of diabetes that: come at an early age, ie, before the age of 15 years, and the advantage of the patient in this case the migration of its strength, and a significant shortage of insulin because of severe damage to beta cells, This type can be treated with tablets, and if the patient is given insulin, the body gets fluctuations in sugar either greatly increases and leads to coma sugar or the occurrence of a shortage of too large to lead to the coma of hypoglycemia.
- Type II comes at a later age, and characterized by this type: This disease occurs at a later age after the age of 40 years, and those who suffer from this type of diabetes is characterized by obesity, insulin secretion in a small amount because the beta cells are still in good condition to That there are several factors limiting the effectiveness, and can be treated with this type of tablets, and in the case of giving insulin to the patient it is easy to control the amount of sugar in the blood.
But what are the causes of diabetes
There are several major causes of diabetes:
- Genetics: There is a genetic factor that works on the transmission of diabetes.
- Obesity: Obesity is usually associated with an increase in calories in the body, and increased calories reduce the ability of cells in the pancreas that secrete insulin.
- Infected beta cells (the cells responsible for the secretion of insulin), because of the infection of viruses is not noticeable.
- And the factors that also cause diabetes Age factor, the older the age of the increase in the incidence of diabetes.
- Pancreatic injury due to inflammation or benign or malignant tumors.
- The removal of the pancreas by surgery, in the case of cancerous tumors.
- Some endocrine diseases such as gingivitis, enlarged limbs, or excessive length.
- Thyroiditis and thyroid poisoning.